Freedom is slavery. Once let the acquisitive instinct burgeon, and there are ruggedly individual forces only too ready to make it come to full and monstrous blossom.
So did the acquisitive conglomerate's decision to pause new capital investments, beyond those it had already pledged, until September 2024, and to put big takeovers on hold.
The whole thing was blent in him with poetry — his imagination had romanticized the acquisitive instinct, as the religious feeling of the Middle Ages turned passion into love.